Savoir Faire at Blue

With a voice straight out of the jazz age, Savoir Faire brings the modern existential crisis into a realm of retro-noir.

Born to an American mother and an Iranian father, Savoir Faire was absorbing the influences of everything from classic 60s rock to Persian pop at an early age. It was during her pre-teen years that she was inspired by the 90s wave of female songwriters to pick up the guitar. Eventually, she studied jazz guitar in college, where she would discover the duets of and . The artistry of both musicians would greatly influence Savoir Faire's approach to both guitar and voice. She would spend years performing as a lounge singer and jazz guitarist before adding the last few ingredients that would form the aesthetic of Savoir Faire: lush and syrupy vocals, biting lyricism, and searing guitar parts that float between the genres of jazz, rock, and chamber pop. The result is a Lynchian rumination on the present in the debut album Hopeless Nostalgic, combining wistful nostalgia and modern rage to answer the question "What if a torch singer had a Riot Grrl heart?"

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